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Title: Mamewah forcing refresh rate?
Post by: somunny on November 05, 2004, 11:19:39 am

I have my monitor set to a refresh rate of 60hz.  When I'm in Windows (XP) the rate is 60hz.  However, when I launch Mamewah 0.97, the rate jumps to 75hz.  Many of the games will not play and give a "over 50hz" error message.

This setup worked fine on a 17" monitor, but things went wonky when I hooked up the pc to my 27" monitor.

I've looked through Mamewah setup and can't find any setting for the rate.  Any ideas?

Coop

Title: Re:Mamewah forcing refresh rate?
Post by: SpamMe on November 05, 2004, 06:59:12 pm

It could be. Open your layout in the mamewah layout designer. There's a 'refresh rate' drop down in the background menu.

Note to minwah or anybody that might know: Is there any reason to have layout-specific refresh rates?

Title: Re:Mamewah forcing refresh rate?
Post by: somunny on November 05, 2004, 10:53:17 pm

Thanks for the tip Spam.

Found the setting and it was set to 75kHz.  Changed it and now the monitor is running at 60kHz in Mamewah.

I'm still getting a "Over 50kHz" error message with many of the older games though.

I'm going to try playing around with Powerstrip to see if I can correct the problem.  Has anyone else seen the "Over 50kHz" error message when running Mamewah on a pc monitor?

Coop

Title: Re:Mamewah forcing refresh rate?
Post by: Minwah on November 07, 2004, 10:00:00 am

Quote from: SpamMe on November 05, 2004, 06:59:12 pm

Note to minwah or anybody that might know: Is there any reason to have layout-specific refresh rates?

Not really, but if you only have 1 layout then that is the only refresh rate that will be used.  If that makes sense...